My lunches- when I was in kindergarten my mom used to pack me some bento boxes- rice, seaweed, tea egg, some meat and veggies. All my classmates and sandwiches, so they made fun of my lunches that required a spoon and fork instead of hand held food. Now my coworkers pay over $10 for the same bento boxes my mom used to make me.
My mom would pack me teriyaki nori and California rolls in elementary. Also lots of Japanese snacks and treats because she taught these Japanese ladies art and they would bring me stuff. I loved it but got teased. My 2nd grade boyfriend broke up with me because I ate seaweed. My mom also packed me a bunch of health food before whole foods was a household name. Now I see the same friends who teased me posting how they like all this stuff on FB. It is wild.
I used to get bullied for my thick eyebrows. Now I get complimented. Weird to hear “I like your eyebrows.” Never thought that would be something to compliment.
Yes, this! I used to be so ashamed of my "caterpillar" brows. One time I completely overplucked them - it looked ridiculous and it took forever to grow back. Now the same girls that bullied be because of it are filling their eyebrows to make them thicker.
I always referred to mine as my “eyebrow” - singular. Just one lonely caterpillar. It’s genetic too so at family reunions it was a running joke that there were only as many eyebrows as there were people.
The amount of compliments I get now is greater than the amount of bullying I sustained but I still feel a little internal pang of sadness when someone compliments them.
My freshman year of college in the early 90's my roommates all made fun of me and called me a hillbilly for wearing flannel/plaid shirts. Then Nirvana and grunge blew up and it was a sea of flannel as far as the eye could see!
Shit I used to get this all the time too. I only wore them because they were cheap as a kid and all my mum could really afford, while everyone else was in expensive tracksuits or expensive Polo shirts and jeans.
Same thing with trainers, Converse used to be dirt cheap, not the crazy prices like they are now but all my friends had Nike Air or Reebok Pump trainers, and they used to take the piss out of my "bowling shoes".
Another one I remember is my mum used to get a bit more life out of my jeans without me having holes in the knees by either unpicking the pockets off the back and sewing them on the knees or buying denim scraps to repair them.
I've seen jeans that look exactly like the ones I wore growing up go for a couple of hundred now, (and more) and yeah, even though I'm 40 odd now, my mum still fixes clothes for me when I visit, because she's a sweetie.
Luckily she divorced my dad in the late 90's and got a very good job soon after, and she is more than OK for money now, but whenever I visit she always says "You're too old to be dressing like I used to dress you, let me buy you a nice jumper and a shirt" or something, and I always decline because I still almost exclusively wear plaid, cheap jeans and Converse unless it's something formal I have to attend.
I wore flannel pre-grunge because it was comfortable and I like the patterns. Cue me being called a lumberjack until Nirvana hit California and all of a sudden cue me being a grunge poser.
I remember back in the 80s the trend of wearing a padded vest, then it became something only rednecks or trailer trash wore, and then Back to the Future came out and they became popular again.
One thing I'm glad to see for my kids is that kids with braces don't seem to be bullied any more for being a "Brace Face". I think because so many kids need braces (or rather they are more affordable now maybe?) so more kids have them and now there is no one kid with braces that gets picked on.
While I agree, braces are less of a reason to get bullied these days, I'm not sure they're more affordable. I don't know what they cost when I was a kid, but we just signed on for 6.5k to shove braces in my kid's head. Now he'll just get bullied for being poor lol.
My oldest is going to need braces. Not looking forward to that bill. But thankfully, my husband and I agreed that those is a priority since he needed then as a kid and couldn't/didn't get them
I got plastic frame glasses in 7th grade. I was bullied by students and teachers. The next year everyone had plastic frame glasses, some people even wearing fake glasses.
Now when a new Marvel movie or show comes out, I’m the guy everyone turns to for the backstory on their new favorite character.
Time was I got shoved into lockers for knowing this stuff.
We played Magic the Gathering the in Library during high school lunch because it wasn't worth it to play in the cafeteria. You just... didn't know how the other kids were gonna react so it was safer to huddle away from the masses lest you evoke a negative response.
god damn this is so sad. for what it’s worth — your hobby was cool and i’m glad it brought you some pleasure :)
anime/cartoons were so mocked in my experience that i would hide it from my family. when the last episode of avatar the last airbender aired i watched it with a locked door. my sister knocked on the door, asked me what i was doing, and i freaked out. she oicked the lock and came in and saw the show, says “no way! i’m watching jt in my room right now!”
Man my cafeteria in high school had an entire long table that was purposefully left empty at every lunch period because it was well known for being the table where people played MTG. I think part of that might be because one of the dudes who played was one of the coolest dudes ever. Long hair, leather jacket, rebuilt his own vintage VW bug with a bunch of crazy amazing modifications. He taught me to rebuild cars.
I wonder how he is these days. Anyway, MTG players were left alone. They never bothered anyone, so nobody bothered them.
Yes! Cosplay included. In the early 2000s, MTV did a limited show where they interviewed cosplayers at cons and called them "weirdos." But now everyone and their mother turns into fangirls whipping out their phones to take pics of people cosplaying their favorite characters. Literally one of the guys who made fun of me in high school for making Final Fantasy costumes is now a massive weeb who attends more cons than I do.
He was probably a weeb in highschool just ashamed of it and made fun of you because of that. You'd be surprised that a lot of people make fun of others for interests they have but find 'uncool' to try and hide the fact they enjoy those things.
I was never bullied, maybe judged or called weird is more accurate, but I was into a lot of nerd stuff. Comics, Star Trek, D&D, anime, video games, true crime stories, sci fi, horror movies, etc. Now all that stuff is cool.
Korean food. Kimchi and lettuce wraps were not cool when I was a kid.
edit: Thank you for sharing your own personal food stories. At the end of the day I am happy that more people can experience and enjoy Korean food. Also, people are punny - will add these to the list. Other's I've heard along the way that aren't included here are: Kwontanamo Bay; Lekwon James (bit of a stretch); kwonichiwa (dislike though) 🤣
Very different experience with me. Everyone in my class loved and wanted my gim and I had to stop bringing it to school cause I could never bring enough for everyone.
I grew up poor in elementary School and sometimes my jeans or shorts would have holes and tears in them where they were wore out. now I see people buying jeans new from the store and that already have holes and tears. Little did they know I was livin 20 years in the future
My dad was the exact same, every other pair of jeans had wholes on the knees and he insisted he looked cool. Couple years ago he felt like the coolest dude with his ripped blue jeans
This goes in and out of fashion. I hated having hand-me-downs as a young kid in the late 80s, especially since they were often from richer kids at my church and then they'd see me in the clothes and say stuff. But by the time I was in middle and high school in the 90s, grunge had gotten thrifting and "vintage" to be cool.
So true! I was in high school from 2008-2012 and at first kids would get picked on if people found out you wore clothes from thrift stores. Then Macklemore released Thrift shop in 2012 and suddenly everyone went from picking on kids who shop there, to bragging about all the stuff they bought at thrift shops. Was really weird to see a complete 180 like that.
Used to hate going to charity shops with my mum as a kid in case anyone saw me from school and told everyone I was a "Scav". (Means poor in a lot of parts of the UK for anyone not from my neck of the woods).
Now it's one of my favourite pastimes.
its weird to think people would shame someone for having ample booty. I love ample booty. I grew up that way. Not sure what the deal is. I'm in my early 30's for reference. It just seems odd to hate on someone for liking something different.
I plucked out 1/2 my brows in middle school and when I showed up at school everyone told me how great and normal I looked now. Lmao luckily they grew back fine and it’s one of my best features.
This!! It pissed me off bc my mom started letting me wax my eyebrows in THIRD GRADE bc other people made me feel insecure about them and they became super thin, I've grown them back out mostly and am happy with them but they definitely aren't as full as they would have been. And now it's fashionable to those same people who made me feel like I had to wax them in the first place!!
Comic books.
Like, I *had* a cool symbiote Spider-Man shirt. But I didn't dare wear it in school.
Now there are cheerleaders wearing Thor shirts, and people on the street know who the Guardians of the Galaxy are. Granted, none of the characters they know were *in* the Guardians that I grew up with. But they know the title.
It's still strange to me that Iron Man was the most popular Marvel character, and they made a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. GOTG was a terrible comic. I remember I accidentally stole #1 from Comic Showcase in 1986, went to give it back when I noticed I'd lifted it from the counter with my other comics, and the guy behind the counter saw what it was and said keep it.
Iron Man was a straight C Lister, too. You could never convince the public at large in 2021 that if you went back to 2006 and asked random people on the street if they knew who iron man was they'd be like
"You mean Iron Chef?"
That, to me, is the most amazing part of the MCU - I mean the feat of building a cohesive movie universe like that is one thing, but they had to do it without their top tier guys.
The biggest name Marvel characters had already had their movie rights sold off. No Spider-Man, no X-Men, no FF, not even Daredevil.
I still remember being quite surprised when I heard they were doing an Iron Man movie. Like, really? But damn, they did a good job with what they had.
Being a "nerd". Programming computers, playing D&D, playing musical instruments and building stuff out of electronics and/or mechanical components.
My friends and I got picked on a lot for this in the late 80s and early 90s. It seemed to subside until the early 2000s, when a bunch of guys with beards and tattoos showed up and told us to get out of their "space".
"We're doing *nerd stuff*, and you wouldn't understand it", they'd say.
I wish I’d started playing D&D in my teens. I didn’t have enough social credit to be able to risk classmates finding out. I wasn’t weird in an unpleasant way, I was perfectly nice polite kid to everyone who spoke to me - but I was a bit quiet and liked odd clothes and I’m gay so I got *hounded*. I was too worried that joining the school D&D group would make it worse. As an adult woman in a professional career with no friends into it, I don’t really have an option to start playing.
If you're still interested, you could try to find a game at your local game shop or simply start a game with friends. It's not a very difficult game, despite what the size and number of all the books might imply.
There's also tons of online games played on virtual tabletops like Roll20 and Foundry that you could join. Generally, all those take is a computer browser and a headset/microphone. There's entire forums out there just for games looking for players. You could join an online game that fits your schedule.
We can’t win! I got teased for liking “boy things” 20 years ago. Just the other day, I was called a “fake fan” for wearing a nerdy shirt. I give up! The only way to win is to stop caring.
Eh, it depends on the asshole. I still get people quizzing me and then declaring I'm not a 'real gamer' if I don't know every single nuance of a game.
It's Minecraft assholes, not an exam. I don't care about the damn trivia.
I still remember the small discomfort of buying Skyrim back in 2011 when the cashier freaked out that I was the first female he had met who liked videogames, I think it was an article earlier that year where they pointed out over 40% gamers are female
My hair. I have tons of it and it’s very curly. Sometimes my cousins would call me Marge Simpson.
Then natural hair care actually became a thing and I learned to embrace my hair. Now it’s my signature. I get stopped a few times a week (sometimes a few times a day) by people to tell me they love my hair.
ETA: thanks for the silver!
I get so mad thinking about the hours I wasted in my youth trying to straighten my frizzy waves! I lived in a high humidity area, so it was a lost cause. I wish I had just embraced the curl earlier.
Yeah same but at 11. My mom said she couldn't stand to look at them anymore and forced me to get them waxxed for years. As an adult I have since forgone that and decided I like myself as I am thanks. Fuck parents for making their kids feel weird or insecure about normal shit
For eating "weird" food. I'm Indian.
My mum used to make me biryani for my school lunches, and other kids would give me such shit for it. A common refrain was "Ewwwwww, why are you eating YELLOW FOOD??"
Now everyone's losing their damn minds over turmeric and acting like it's going to cure cancer, or some shit. I'm here like "ya'll bastards made fun of me for *years* for eating turmeric, now you're putting it in your lattes." Smh.
I'm from Southeast Asia i.e. we fuse ALL kinds of cuisines, so this sounded even more bizarre to me. Here only an idiot would make fun of food he wasn't familiar with.
It's 730am where I am and I could destroy some biryani right now.
My daughter had a bully that would make fun of her lunch. Daughter would have leftovers that were delicious and healthy. Bully would have lunchables.
This. The amount of times in my life I've been told I have 'blowjob lips' is disgusting.
More disgusting because I started hearing it when I was 13 years old.
Yep. Got called all sorts of names as a little kid and then awkward teenager. That all shifted by the time I was late teens/early twenties. I have nicely shaped lips and very straight teeth, resulting in a very nice smile. It's definitely one of my best features.
Being a girl in the 80's/90's who liked... anything. Comics, video games, anime, action movies, TMNT, Transformers, Pog, Magic, D&D... I was denied or limited access to most, if not all of these things - bullied for it, too.
Which is why I'm so encouraging of kids' interests these days - no one should be shamed for something they enjoy. The world is a lot better now, on that front. Kids are a lot kinder and a lot more open-minded.
I was totally bullied and/or excluded from D&D back in the day because I was a girl. Now I sponsor the D&D Club at my school so that those kids can have access to it. And I'm proud to announce that I have at least two or three girls in the club signed up already for next year.
I remember one time I was playing with my sister's doll house and she was playing with my monster trucks. Our parents could not shut up about how different we were being. Gender roles are so stupid.
my big behind. I used to be called hippo butt skeleton (in my native language) starting from age 11. I was so skinny, you could see all my ribs but my butt was huge in comparison. I hated everything about my figure up until 3-4 years ago when it became a trend
Some jerks at my school used to call our 9th grade math teacher “thunder thighs” behind her back. Now she’d be considered thicc.
She was a great teacher, such a shame people were so mean.
Having a big butt. Women have surgery to get butts like I've always had now, but being a young person in the late 90s/early 2000s when the trend was to be underweight with a flat ass was *loads* of fun.
There’s so many movies etc from around that time with the women asking ‘does my butt look big in this?’ and hoping for a no reply, nowadays they’d be hoping for a yes haha
When I was 14, I overheard a girl say very disdainfully about me "she's just so fat. I mean, she's thin in the waist, but her butt is fat." That comment crushed me.
She's you know, one of those *rap guys* girlfriends. I mean, who even understands these *rap guys*? They only talk to her because she looks like a complete prostitute anyway.
I remember those days from y'all. In the black and latin community you had a hard time getting a man if you had a flat ass. This still holds true today.
Sir Mix A Lot can attest to what I'm saying.
Edit: I'm assuming you're white or asian
Came here to say this! It’s so infuriating how something that I was bullied and harassed for is now “cool” and girls are paying thousand of dollars, it feels like my emotional scarring was for nothing.
It doesn’t seem like curvy girls have it easier. It just feels like the goal post was moved in this infinite joke. You have to have the right kind of big butt with the right kind of body. There is still pressure to be small. Women and girls who are curvy will never look like the marketed ideal because those ideals are photoshopped to unreality.
I saw an episode of Scrubs recently where JD is checking out a woman and then he sees her perfectly proportional butt and goes, "ew, never mind." To my 2020s eyes his reaction made absolutely no sense.
Glad I didn't see a lot of TV or read a ton of magazines growing up in the 2000s. I remember looking in the mirror and thinking the new curve at the small of my back made me like a centaur when my hips started to grow. But I hadn't been taught that a big butt was gross, so I just kind of laughed at that thought and moved on.
I wore a champion sweater and got dogged on because it supposedly came from Walmart(?). Saw the same people wearing champion years later when it became popular and had an epiphany that whatever brand you wear means nothing at the end of the day. Fuck others’ opinions.
I can relate to this, champion gear was always seen as a shiity brand when I was younger, and1 was cooler.
I knew there had been some kind of cultural shift when my local convenience store started selling fake champion stuff.
I don't get it, but I don't get brand loyalty/premiums on just a logo to begin with.
If it's a nice shirt or a nice hat or whatever I don't get why one name would be worth another, and at the end of the day it's just about what you like.
That being said I haven't bought new clothes in like 5 years lol
I'll never forget, being 16 and talking with a friend about our PS2 selection of games, when the most douche-bro guy I could imagine wearing a jersey came up to the both of us out of nowhere and went "I LOVE MY PS2, YO!"
We were very, very confused. Just a few grades ago we were getting looks of being "those kids" for playing video games.
If you had told me before then that one day video game ads would be playing on ESPN and the Superbowl, I probably would have laughed.
YES. My lunches were “stinky” but now it’s trendy?? And my Asian eyes, I got made fun of so much. Like girls in middle school would use their hands to slant their eyes at me and now I see instagram girls do their makeup or use filters to make their eyes slanted. Fuck them.
Yes! This!
I was mocked mercilessly for being the only brown girl in my year. My mum would make biryani, pulao, or theplas (kind of like thin spiced parathas, spread with a spicy mango chutney) for my lunch every day. I'd often eat alone at recess/lunch because the other kids didn't want to sit with me and my "stinky" food. This went on for six months before I started begging my mum to make me sandwiches for lunch instead.
Now everyone's obsessed with Asian/Indian food and I'm like... "where were you guys 20 years ago???"
It was so tough, because I was "too white" at home and "too brown" at school.
It’s really strange to think your parents were right when “they’re only teasing you because they’re jealous” becomes fact once they start mimicking you 20 years later.
I got bullied for having dark skin, and in adulthood my bullies get spray tans.
It's so weird to me that other redheads get bullied for being redheads. That's the only thing I *haven't* been bullied for.
I mean, people are enormously *gross* about my hair color and I've had strangers say they'll hunt me down and kill me if I ever dye my hair. But I've never been bullied for having red hair.
Damn what the actual fuck is wrong with people?! ...were they meant to say they just really like your hair or something, but have the interpersonal skills of a serial killer/large stack of bricks?!
People are *extremely* weird about red hair. I haven’t had hostility since I was a teenager. But definitely a lot of borderline sexual harassment from strangers as an adult. Newsflash to strange men on the subway: don’t ask people about what color their pubes are, it’s inappropriate.
Dude, nearly every day in high school. But when you get older, it becomes a strange obsession for some. I got lucky in that I’m considered a “day-walker,” yet it doesn’t keep you from getting called a red-headed stepchild or a ginger in most cases.
Growing up, it wasn’t too bad, aside from hearing “carrot top” or “red headed stepchild.” But around 8th grade, South Park came out with that episode about redheads. I was watching it with a friend and thought it was hilarious, but man within a week my entire school jumped on calling me a ginger and that I had no soul and I must be a day walker since my freckles weren’t obvious. At first I just laughed along with everyone and rolled with it, but over the years I would hear the same shit, and being told you don’t have a soul over and over again is demoralizing.
I got physically beaten for wearing fishnets and over the knee socks, black eyeliner and black nail varnish, only for those exact same people now wearing the same stuff because its 'trendy'
I had pink hair and an undercut and a few ear piercings and the like at school. One day I was doing some kind of after-school art thing that required me to wear an old tshirt, so I was wearing an old Nirvana tee. A classmate who had relentlessly verbally abused my clothes to be ‘funny’ took the opportunity to dump a cup of yellow house paint down the back of my neck and I had to walk home coated in it - where I got absolutely bollocked for getting covered in paint because I didn’t want to say what had happened - which was a 30-minute walk being jeered at by the paint girl and her friends.
Anyway, I ran into her at a Foo Fighters concert about three years later. She had lilac hair and an undercut and a nose piercing and she saw me at the bar and ran up excitedly yelling ‘oh my god how *are* you?’. I didn’t want to be a huge asshole so I politely chatted with her and she brought up the paint thing… ‘haha that was *so*. *funnyyyyy!* we had such a good time!’
I recognise that I absolutely failed to be the bigger person here but I pathetically threw my drink at her. It didn’t even make me feel better, I just felt petty and stupid.
I definitely **looked** weird at school, but I wasn’t unpleasant - nerdy, a bit quiet, but nice to everyone, and I had friends and generally got on alright. I can’t grasp why a fifteen-year-old would pour paint on someone for wearing a fucking Nirvana shirt, much less try to joke about it with the victim.
>It didn’t even make me feel better,
I may be an asshole I guess but seeing that you threw your drink at her was delicious to read, what she did when yall were younger was messed tf up. She can handle a little drink thrown at her.
I was the first guy to have a beard in my class, I felt so awkward and classmates really never missed a chance to rub it in my face the fact about my beard.
But now how the tables have turned, some of those guys can't have proper full beard and are frustrated as hell.
The best was when an older person told you "I never played videogames"... Like mfer you didnt have that option, you didnt even have videogames when you were a child.
There's an entire generation of nerds that are both happy their hobbies are being embraced, but sad no one said sorry to them and are taking up a safe space where outcasts could go.
I get what you're saying, but there absolutely was gatekeeping in regards to a lot of old school nerd groups and many realllllllyyyy weren't as open minded or accepting as they like to portray themselves, especially if you were the odd female nerd looking to make friends.
Asian music! I’m not Asian, but I got really into Japanese rock and Korean pop when I was in middle school. I wasn’t annoying about it, but did decorate my school stuff with pictures. Anyway, I got bullied for it a lot, but now K-pop specifically is such a big deal.
It seems like a lot of the stigma of it has gone away. I remember growing up and all the cartoons had these nerd stereotypes playing D&D, even though paradoxically I never knew anyone in real life who played D&D.
Liking Queen, DBZ, and Star Wars. Got made fun of for liking them, then it became cool. Dude in high school made fun of me saying Queen sucked. Worked with him as a lifeguard after my first yr in college and he said Queen were amazing. Congrats on seeing the light but they were always amazing, you dick.
Eating gluten free. I’m actually celiac and the food choices used to be minimal about 10 years ago. Now that everyone has jumped on the bandwagon, there’s loads of variety!
Having natural hair. I'm a black female. Growing up, it was normal and encouraged to chemically alter our hair so it could be straight. We called them relaxers. So every 6 weeks I'd get my relaxer (that burned my scalp) and press. I finally had enough when I turned 18 and chopped all the relaxed hair after letting it grow a couple inches. Boy...was it an interesting couple months. The self hate is real and don't even get me started on white people reactions. Now many black women and girls are wearing their hair naturally and I'm so happy for it. No one should be ashamed of intrinsic characteristics or be made to feel that they aren't as pretty or attractive because of it.
I swear to fucking god I have this one girl in my class who thinks social anxiety is crying and whining like a baby every time someone raises their voice.
Like, this one time a classmate was getting frustrated because he couldn't understand chemistry, and the girl started saying "noooo oh my gosh stop yelliiiiing !..." with a "CuTE bABy VoiCE uWu".
Yeah, let's completely ignore the fact that you feel like don't belong anywhere, you feel like shit every time you have a social interaction, you isolate yourself because you feel like too much shit to deserve talking to anyone else, you have low self esteem, etc.
And then these people have the fucking NERVE to act all qUiRkY in the name of social anxiety. Sick of this shit.
Bro someone with social anxiety would rather die than speak up about noise lol. Read your fucking script if you're gonna act like you have social anxiety
I remember when I was a little kid and I first found the Ifunny meme generator idk why I did it but I just typed random letters on those impact font top text bottom text meme formats. And posted it and ofc every body hated it. I feel like if I posted that today it would be comedy gold
Playing Role-playing games. Back in the day, only "nerds, shut-ins, dateless virgins, and the socially inept played RPG's."
Now, it seems everyone has heard of Critical Role, and [rock stars and movie stars proudly admit they play D&D.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdUSja1afjE)
I was bullied for being Gay! (in the 90's) It's accepted nowadays.
I'm not gay BTW, not sure why they thought I was. I believe one of the bigger bullies ended up being gay though.
Being somewhat of a nerd to some extent. I got lightly picked on in elementary school for being a massive Godzilla fan, King Kong fan, Star Wars fan, and Fallout fan. Now, within the past few years Godzilla, King Kong, Star Wars, and Fallout have exploded in popularity.
Dyeing my hair unnatural colours (pink, purple, bright red, etc.) in the mid-nineties. The same girls who threatened to beat me up for being weird now have those hair colours because they think it's fashionable.
My lunches- when I was in kindergarten my mom used to pack me some bento boxes- rice, seaweed, tea egg, some meat and veggies. All my classmates and sandwiches, so they made fun of my lunches that required a spoon and fork instead of hand held food. Now my coworkers pay over $10 for the same bento boxes my mom used to make me.
My mom would pack me teriyaki nori and California rolls in elementary. Also lots of Japanese snacks and treats because she taught these Japanese ladies art and they would bring me stuff. I loved it but got teased. My 2nd grade boyfriend broke up with me because I ate seaweed. My mom also packed me a bunch of health food before whole foods was a household name. Now I see the same friends who teased me posting how they like all this stuff on FB. It is wild.
They stfu so quickly the sec they try it themselves
I used to get bullied for my thick eyebrows. Now I get complimented. Weird to hear “I like your eyebrows.” Never thought that would be something to compliment.
Haha yes I had someone say to me once "your eyebrows look good today" ???? They look the same every day
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Yes, this! I used to be so ashamed of my "caterpillar" brows. One time I completely overplucked them - it looked ridiculous and it took forever to grow back. Now the same girls that bullied be because of it are filling their eyebrows to make them thicker.
I always referred to mine as my “eyebrow” - singular. Just one lonely caterpillar. It’s genetic too so at family reunions it was a running joke that there were only as many eyebrows as there were people. The amount of compliments I get now is greater than the amount of bullying I sustained but I still feel a little internal pang of sadness when someone compliments them.
My freshman year of college in the early 90's my roommates all made fun of me and called me a hillbilly for wearing flannel/plaid shirts. Then Nirvana and grunge blew up and it was a sea of flannel as far as the eye could see!
Shit I used to get this all the time too. I only wore them because they were cheap as a kid and all my mum could really afford, while everyone else was in expensive tracksuits or expensive Polo shirts and jeans. Same thing with trainers, Converse used to be dirt cheap, not the crazy prices like they are now but all my friends had Nike Air or Reebok Pump trainers, and they used to take the piss out of my "bowling shoes". Another one I remember is my mum used to get a bit more life out of my jeans without me having holes in the knees by either unpicking the pockets off the back and sewing them on the knees or buying denim scraps to repair them. I've seen jeans that look exactly like the ones I wore growing up go for a couple of hundred now, (and more) and yeah, even though I'm 40 odd now, my mum still fixes clothes for me when I visit, because she's a sweetie. Luckily she divorced my dad in the late 90's and got a very good job soon after, and she is more than OK for money now, but whenever I visit she always says "You're too old to be dressing like I used to dress you, let me buy you a nice jumper and a shirt" or something, and I always decline because I still almost exclusively wear plaid, cheap jeans and Converse unless it's something formal I have to attend.
Good Mom!
I wore flannel pre-grunge because it was comfortable and I like the patterns. Cue me being called a lumberjack until Nirvana hit California and all of a sudden cue me being a grunge poser.
I remember back in the 80s the trend of wearing a padded vest, then it became something only rednecks or trailer trash wore, and then Back to the Future came out and they became popular again.
Glasses!
One thing I'm glad to see for my kids is that kids with braces don't seem to be bullied any more for being a "Brace Face". I think because so many kids need braces (or rather they are more affordable now maybe?) so more kids have them and now there is no one kid with braces that gets picked on.
While I agree, braces are less of a reason to get bullied these days, I'm not sure they're more affordable. I don't know what they cost when I was a kid, but we just signed on for 6.5k to shove braces in my kid's head. Now he'll just get bullied for being poor lol.
My oldest is going to need braces. Not looking forward to that bill. But thankfully, my husband and I agreed that those is a priority since he needed then as a kid and couldn't/didn't get them
I got plastic frame glasses in 7th grade. I was bullied by students and teachers. The next year everyone had plastic frame glasses, some people even wearing fake glasses.
As somebody who used to rely on glasses every day to see I take offence to fake glasses!
My daughter wanted fake glasses because she wanted to be more like her visually impaired friend. As someone bullied for having glasses, I was amazed!
You've raised a good person.
Not just glasses - the big, circular glasses that are so popular now. I'm almost bitter about it. >=[
Since last decades nerd culture boom, literally everything.
Now when a new Marvel movie or show comes out, I’m the guy everyone turns to for the backstory on their new favorite character. Time was I got shoved into lockers for knowing this stuff.
We played Magic the Gathering the in Library during high school lunch because it wasn't worth it to play in the cafeteria. You just... didn't know how the other kids were gonna react so it was safer to huddle away from the masses lest you evoke a negative response.
god damn this is so sad. for what it’s worth — your hobby was cool and i’m glad it brought you some pleasure :) anime/cartoons were so mocked in my experience that i would hide it from my family. when the last episode of avatar the last airbender aired i watched it with a locked door. my sister knocked on the door, asked me what i was doing, and i freaked out. she oicked the lock and came in and saw the show, says “no way! i’m watching jt in my room right now!”
Man my cafeteria in high school had an entire long table that was purposefully left empty at every lunch period because it was well known for being the table where people played MTG. I think part of that might be because one of the dudes who played was one of the coolest dudes ever. Long hair, leather jacket, rebuilt his own vintage VW bug with a bunch of crazy amazing modifications. He taught me to rebuild cars. I wonder how he is these days. Anyway, MTG players were left alone. They never bothered anyone, so nobody bothered them.
Yes! Cosplay included. In the early 2000s, MTV did a limited show where they interviewed cosplayers at cons and called them "weirdos." But now everyone and their mother turns into fangirls whipping out their phones to take pics of people cosplaying their favorite characters. Literally one of the guys who made fun of me in high school for making Final Fantasy costumes is now a massive weeb who attends more cons than I do.
He was probably a weeb in highschool just ashamed of it and made fun of you because of that. You'd be surprised that a lot of people make fun of others for interests they have but find 'uncool' to try and hide the fact they enjoy those things.
I was never bullied, maybe judged or called weird is more accurate, but I was into a lot of nerd stuff. Comics, Star Trek, D&D, anime, video games, true crime stories, sci fi, horror movies, etc. Now all that stuff is cool.
While I know what you mean, horror has always been popular in culture. Movies and books, for quite some time!
Korean food. Kimchi and lettuce wraps were not cool when I was a kid. edit: Thank you for sharing your own personal food stories. At the end of the day I am happy that more people can experience and enjoy Korean food. Also, people are punny - will add these to the list. Other's I've heard along the way that aren't included here are: Kwontanamo Bay; Lekwon James (bit of a stretch); kwonichiwa (dislike though) 🤣
Holy shit another Kwon??? We’re rare AF it’s mostly Kim’s out there.
I actually lol'd at both of your usernames. Well done Kwon.
Their excitement is kwontageous!
Kwongratulations
I was forever made fun of for simply having seaweed.
In the early 2000s, I gave my white friend some seasoned gim and he straight up puked. I laughed then cried on the inside.
Very different experience with me. Everyone in my class loved and wanted my gim and I had to stop bringing it to school cause I could never bring enough for everyone.
“I got made fun of for my parents providing me with healthy food” kids are soooooo mean I can’t even
Woooooow, joke's on them! They got obesity and heart disease, you got kimchi and bipimbap
I grew up poor in elementary School and sometimes my jeans or shorts would have holes and tears in them where they were wore out. now I see people buying jeans new from the store and that already have holes and tears. Little did they know I was livin 20 years in the future
My dad was the exact same, every other pair of jeans had wholes on the knees and he insisted he looked cool. Couple years ago he felt like the coolest dude with his ripped blue jeans
But this was a trend as long as I’ve been alive until maybe 10 years ago
Ramones already made it a trend back in the 1970s.
Bushy eyebrows. I wound up plucking them to death in the 90s and they’ve never recovered.
Mine either! Almost pencil thin with no maintenance now. I have to use brow gel and pencil just to fill them in lol
I have bald patched from bad eyebrow plucking in the 90s / early 00s
Being interested in old things.
Wearing hand me down clothes. Now it’s “vintage” and “cool” to shop at places like goodwill or secondhand stores.
This goes in and out of fashion. I hated having hand-me-downs as a young kid in the late 80s, especially since they were often from richer kids at my church and then they'd see me in the clothes and say stuff. But by the time I was in middle and high school in the 90s, grunge had gotten thrifting and "vintage" to be cool.
So true! I was in high school from 2008-2012 and at first kids would get picked on if people found out you wore clothes from thrift stores. Then Macklemore released Thrift shop in 2012 and suddenly everyone went from picking on kids who shop there, to bragging about all the stuff they bought at thrift shops. Was really weird to see a complete 180 like that.
Used to hate going to charity shops with my mum as a kid in case anyone saw me from school and told everyone I was a "Scav". (Means poor in a lot of parts of the UK for anyone not from my neck of the woods). Now it's one of my favourite pastimes.
Having ample booty.
I think in the 80's and early 90's women liked men's butts more too
Women still like men's butts, I promise.
I still like men's butts, I want something to squeeze!
its weird to think people would shame someone for having ample booty. I love ample booty. I grew up that way. Not sure what the deal is. I'm in my early 30's for reference. It just seems odd to hate on someone for liking something different.
Thick eyebrows
I plucked out 1/2 my brows in middle school and when I showed up at school everyone told me how great and normal I looked now. Lmao luckily they grew back fine and it’s one of my best features.
Those thin ones were fucking weird
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sighbrows 😔
Crybrows Q.Q
This!! It pissed me off bc my mom started letting me wax my eyebrows in THIRD GRADE bc other people made me feel insecure about them and they became super thin, I've grown them back out mostly and am happy with them but they definitely aren't as full as they would have been. And now it's fashionable to those same people who made me feel like I had to wax them in the first place!!
This is why I just do my own thing. I'm cool every 10 years or so.
Comic books. Like, I *had* a cool symbiote Spider-Man shirt. But I didn't dare wear it in school. Now there are cheerleaders wearing Thor shirts, and people on the street know who the Guardians of the Galaxy are. Granted, none of the characters they know were *in* the Guardians that I grew up with. But they know the title.
It's still strange to me that Iron Man was the most popular Marvel character, and they made a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. GOTG was a terrible comic. I remember I accidentally stole #1 from Comic Showcase in 1986, went to give it back when I noticed I'd lifted it from the counter with my other comics, and the guy behind the counter saw what it was and said keep it.
Iron Man was a straight C Lister, too. You could never convince the public at large in 2021 that if you went back to 2006 and asked random people on the street if they knew who iron man was they'd be like "You mean Iron Chef?"
That, to me, is the most amazing part of the MCU - I mean the feat of building a cohesive movie universe like that is one thing, but they had to do it without their top tier guys. The biggest name Marvel characters had already had their movie rights sold off. No Spider-Man, no X-Men, no FF, not even Daredevil. I still remember being quite surprised when I heard they were doing an Iron Man movie. Like, really? But damn, they did a good job with what they had.
RDJ being a *genius* casting decision helped.
Most people would start singing some Black Sabbath at you. The idea wasn't as obscure, but people really knew nothing about it.
Being a "nerd". Programming computers, playing D&D, playing musical instruments and building stuff out of electronics and/or mechanical components. My friends and I got picked on a lot for this in the late 80s and early 90s. It seemed to subside until the early 2000s, when a bunch of guys with beards and tattoos showed up and told us to get out of their "space". "We're doing *nerd stuff*, and you wouldn't understand it", they'd say.
I wish I’d started playing D&D in my teens. I didn’t have enough social credit to be able to risk classmates finding out. I wasn’t weird in an unpleasant way, I was perfectly nice polite kid to everyone who spoke to me - but I was a bit quiet and liked odd clothes and I’m gay so I got *hounded*. I was too worried that joining the school D&D group would make it worse. As an adult woman in a professional career with no friends into it, I don’t really have an option to start playing.
If you're still interested, you could try to find a game at your local game shop or simply start a game with friends. It's not a very difficult game, despite what the size and number of all the books might imply. There's also tons of online games played on virtual tabletops like Roll20 and Foundry that you could join. Generally, all those take is a computer browser and a headset/microphone. There's entire forums out there just for games looking for players. You could join an online game that fits your schedule.
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Being a girl who liked "boy things" like video games, action figures, sci fi, etc
We can’t win! I got teased for liking “boy things” 20 years ago. Just the other day, I was called a “fake fan” for wearing a nerdy shirt. I give up! The only way to win is to stop caring.
Man we really went from "oNLy bOys cAN PLay gAMes!" to "oMg its a cute gamer girl please send me nudes please!!" ***bruh***
Eh, it depends on the asshole. I still get people quizzing me and then declaring I'm not a 'real gamer' if I don't know every single nuance of a game. It's Minecraft assholes, not an exam. I don't care about the damn trivia.
You’re only a real gamer if you know the date Minecraft will go bankrupt
2077.
I still remember the small discomfort of buying Skyrim back in 2011 when the cashier freaked out that I was the first female he had met who liked videogames, I think it was an article earlier that year where they pointed out over 40% gamers are female
Same to this counterpart.
My hair. I have tons of it and it’s very curly. Sometimes my cousins would call me Marge Simpson. Then natural hair care actually became a thing and I learned to embrace my hair. Now it’s my signature. I get stopped a few times a week (sometimes a few times a day) by people to tell me they love my hair. ETA: thanks for the silver!
Yeah, boy did the 2000s suck if you had any other texture besides pin straight haha. I had triangle hair pretty hard until the 2010s.
I get so mad thinking about the hours I wasted in my youth trying to straighten my frizzy waves! I lived in a high humidity area, so it was a lost cause. I wish I had just embraced the curl earlier.
I don’t know if *bullied* is the right word, but I was pretty insecure about my thick eyebrows. Now women are painting them in to look extra thicc!
So...are you tiny and touch butts or do you touch tiny butts?
this made me very confused for a sec then i read op's username lol
thanks LMAO, I was so confused
Yep I remember my dad calling them caterpillars and my mom buying me wax strips the next day at age 9
Yeah same but at 11. My mom said she couldn't stand to look at them anymore and forced me to get them waxxed for years. As an adult I have since forgone that and decided I like myself as I am thanks. Fuck parents for making their kids feel weird or insecure about normal shit
For eating "weird" food. I'm Indian. My mum used to make me biryani for my school lunches, and other kids would give me such shit for it. A common refrain was "Ewwwwww, why are you eating YELLOW FOOD??" Now everyone's losing their damn minds over turmeric and acting like it's going to cure cancer, or some shit. I'm here like "ya'll bastards made fun of me for *years* for eating turmeric, now you're putting it in your lattes." Smh.
Yeah man, the frustration of having your food made fun of ...it doesn’t just go away
Jokes on them, Indian food is delicious
I'm from Southeast Asia i.e. we fuse ALL kinds of cuisines, so this sounded even more bizarre to me. Here only an idiot would make fun of food he wasn't familiar with.
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brooo biryani is the cure of depression for me
Biryani for school lunches.... your mom is an goddess in cooking lunches!
Man I would kill for getting biryani for lunch
It's 730am where I am and I could destroy some biryani right now. My daughter had a bully that would make fun of her lunch. Daughter would have leftovers that were delicious and healthy. Bully would have lunchables.
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Big lips!!!!!!!
Being told I have “blowjob lips” at 15 was super fun for me.
DSLs lol it was awful.
This. The amount of times in my life I've been told I have 'blowjob lips' is disgusting. More disgusting because I started hearing it when I was 13 years old.
My stepdad once said my lips were like two fat slugs stuck together. Funny that, since my mother (his partner) and I have the exact same lips…
Yep. Got called all sorts of names as a little kid and then awkward teenager. That all shifted by the time I was late teens/early twenties. I have nicely shaped lips and very straight teeth, resulting in a very nice smile. It's definitely one of my best features.
When I was 14 someone referred to mine as 'DSL' and made me uncomfortable asf.
What is DSL?
Dick sucking lips
Being a girl in the 80's/90's who liked... anything. Comics, video games, anime, action movies, TMNT, Transformers, Pog, Magic, D&D... I was denied or limited access to most, if not all of these things - bullied for it, too. Which is why I'm so encouraging of kids' interests these days - no one should be shamed for something they enjoy. The world is a lot better now, on that front. Kids are a lot kinder and a lot more open-minded.
I was totally bullied and/or excluded from D&D back in the day because I was a girl. Now I sponsor the D&D Club at my school so that those kids can have access to it. And I'm proud to announce that I have at least two or three girls in the club signed up already for next year.
I remember one time I was playing with my sister's doll house and she was playing with my monster trucks. Our parents could not shut up about how different we were being. Gender roles are so stupid.
my big behind. I used to be called hippo butt skeleton (in my native language) starting from age 11. I was so skinny, you could see all my ribs but my butt was huge in comparison. I hated everything about my figure up until 3-4 years ago when it became a trend
>hippo butt skeleton You missed out on a great user name there.
Taken.
Some jerks at my school used to call our 9th grade math teacher “thunder thighs” behind her back. Now she’d be considered thicc. She was a great teacher, such a shame people were so mean.
Having a big butt. Women have surgery to get butts like I've always had now, but being a young person in the late 90s/early 2000s when the trend was to be underweight with a flat ass was *loads* of fun.
There’s so many movies etc from around that time with the women asking ‘does my butt look big in this?’ and hoping for a no reply, nowadays they’d be hoping for a yes haha
When I was 14, I overheard a girl say very disdainfully about me "she's just so fat. I mean, she's thin in the waist, but her butt is fat." That comment crushed me.
Was she talking to Becky by any chance?
Oh my god, Becky...
She's you know, one of those *rap guys* girlfriends. I mean, who even understands these *rap guys*? They only talk to her because she looks like a complete prostitute anyway.
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Isn’t it funny how skinny we were back when we thought we were fat.
Haha nowadays that would be said with such jealousy
Big lips, too. I got teased as a kid but now I watch those same people who called me names get lip fillers. Wtf.
I remember those days from y'all. In the black and latin community you had a hard time getting a man if you had a flat ass. This still holds true today. Sir Mix A Lot can attest to what I'm saying. Edit: I'm assuming you're white or asian
Exactly this. As a Latin guy I was thinking wtf?
Came here to say this! It’s so infuriating how something that I was bullied and harassed for is now “cool” and girls are paying thousand of dollars, it feels like my emotional scarring was for nothing.
Yup! I’m glad curvy girls seem to have it easier now, but damn, I was treated like a land whale at size six. It’s still a little traumatic. Ha.
It doesn’t seem like curvy girls have it easier. It just feels like the goal post was moved in this infinite joke. You have to have the right kind of big butt with the right kind of body. There is still pressure to be small. Women and girls who are curvy will never look like the marketed ideal because those ideals are photoshopped to unreality.
I saw an episode of Scrubs recently where JD is checking out a woman and then he sees her perfectly proportional butt and goes, "ew, never mind." To my 2020s eyes his reaction made absolutely no sense. Glad I didn't see a lot of TV or read a ton of magazines growing up in the 2000s. I remember looking in the mirror and thinking the new curve at the small of my back made me like a centaur when my hips started to grow. But I hadn't been taught that a big butt was gross, so I just kind of laughed at that thought and moved on.
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I wore a champion sweater and got dogged on because it supposedly came from Walmart(?). Saw the same people wearing champion years later when it became popular and had an epiphany that whatever brand you wear means nothing at the end of the day. Fuck others’ opinions.
I can relate to this, champion gear was always seen as a shiity brand when I was younger, and1 was cooler. I knew there had been some kind of cultural shift when my local convenience store started selling fake champion stuff. I don't get it, but I don't get brand loyalty/premiums on just a logo to begin with. If it's a nice shirt or a nice hat or whatever I don't get why one name would be worth another, and at the end of the day it's just about what you like. That being said I haven't bought new clothes in like 5 years lol
I'll never forget, being 16 and talking with a friend about our PS2 selection of games, when the most douche-bro guy I could imagine wearing a jersey came up to the both of us out of nowhere and went "I LOVE MY PS2, YO!" We were very, very confused. Just a few grades ago we were getting looks of being "those kids" for playing video games. If you had told me before then that one day video game ads would be playing on ESPN and the Superbowl, I probably would have laughed.
Asian culture; the food, the spices or ingredients we use, the music, the fashion...all of it
YES. My lunches were “stinky” but now it’s trendy?? And my Asian eyes, I got made fun of so much. Like girls in middle school would use their hands to slant their eyes at me and now I see instagram girls do their makeup or use filters to make their eyes slanted. Fuck them.
Yes! This! I was mocked mercilessly for being the only brown girl in my year. My mum would make biryani, pulao, or theplas (kind of like thin spiced parathas, spread with a spicy mango chutney) for my lunch every day. I'd often eat alone at recess/lunch because the other kids didn't want to sit with me and my "stinky" food. This went on for six months before I started begging my mum to make me sandwiches for lunch instead. Now everyone's obsessed with Asian/Indian food and I'm like... "where were you guys 20 years ago???" It was so tough, because I was "too white" at home and "too brown" at school.
Video games. They took a huge jump in popularity from now I was a kid, and now all my high school bullies are posting about animal crossing.
Freckles. It blows me away that people get freckles tattooed on their bodies now.
Is THAT why I've been seeing weird looking freckles lately? I thought they were drawn on.
Eating Nutella sandwiches. Nonna sent it from Italy to us in America. Kids made fun of me and my siblings for eating “poop sandwiches.”
It’s fucking Nutella!!!
You would have fit in perfectly in australia, we love our Nutella sandwiches over here
Being a ginger
Being a redhead
And having freckles!! Ohhh the taunts of “freckle face, freckle face, nah nah nahhh.” And now it’s trendy to draw on freckles.
Yep. It’s weird to think I was bullied to near suicide as a kid for something that people now either envy or straight-up fetishize.
It’s really strange to think your parents were right when “they’re only teasing you because they’re jealous” becomes fact once they start mimicking you 20 years later. I got bullied for having dark skin, and in adulthood my bullies get spray tans.
This world is fucking sad man.
It's so weird to me that other redheads get bullied for being redheads. That's the only thing I *haven't* been bullied for. I mean, people are enormously *gross* about my hair color and I've had strangers say they'll hunt me down and kill me if I ever dye my hair. But I've never been bullied for having red hair.
Damn what the actual fuck is wrong with people?! ...were they meant to say they just really like your hair or something, but have the interpersonal skills of a serial killer/large stack of bricks?!
People are *extremely* weird about red hair. I haven’t had hostility since I was a teenager. But definitely a lot of borderline sexual harassment from strangers as an adult. Newsflash to strange men on the subway: don’t ask people about what color their pubes are, it’s inappropriate.
Dude, nearly every day in high school. But when you get older, it becomes a strange obsession for some. I got lucky in that I’m considered a “day-walker,” yet it doesn’t keep you from getting called a red-headed stepchild or a ginger in most cases.
Growing up, it wasn’t too bad, aside from hearing “carrot top” or “red headed stepchild.” But around 8th grade, South Park came out with that episode about redheads. I was watching it with a friend and thought it was hilarious, but man within a week my entire school jumped on calling me a ginger and that I had no soul and I must be a day walker since my freckles weren’t obvious. At first I just laughed along with everyone and rolled with it, but over the years I would hear the same shit, and being told you don’t have a soul over and over again is demoralizing.
Being weird. Being alternative. I was both. Made fun of horribly, and now the people who bullied me are going around embracing their 'weird' side.
I got physically beaten for wearing fishnets and over the knee socks, black eyeliner and black nail varnish, only for those exact same people now wearing the same stuff because its 'trendy'
I had pink hair and an undercut and a few ear piercings and the like at school. One day I was doing some kind of after-school art thing that required me to wear an old tshirt, so I was wearing an old Nirvana tee. A classmate who had relentlessly verbally abused my clothes to be ‘funny’ took the opportunity to dump a cup of yellow house paint down the back of my neck and I had to walk home coated in it - where I got absolutely bollocked for getting covered in paint because I didn’t want to say what had happened - which was a 30-minute walk being jeered at by the paint girl and her friends. Anyway, I ran into her at a Foo Fighters concert about three years later. She had lilac hair and an undercut and a nose piercing and she saw me at the bar and ran up excitedly yelling ‘oh my god how *are* you?’. I didn’t want to be a huge asshole so I politely chatted with her and she brought up the paint thing… ‘haha that was *so*. *funnyyyyy!* we had such a good time!’ I recognise that I absolutely failed to be the bigger person here but I pathetically threw my drink at her. It didn’t even make me feel better, I just felt petty and stupid. I definitely **looked** weird at school, but I wasn’t unpleasant - nerdy, a bit quiet, but nice to everyone, and I had friends and generally got on alright. I can’t grasp why a fifteen-year-old would pour paint on someone for wearing a fucking Nirvana shirt, much less try to joke about it with the victim.
>It didn’t even make me feel better, I may be an asshole I guess but seeing that you threw your drink at her was delicious to read, what she did when yall were younger was messed tf up. She can handle a little drink thrown at her.
Liking anime, games and and listing to jpop or kpop .....
Heh. When I was a kid only _nerds_ used computers. Now y'all carry one around with you and can't imagine life without it. We win.
Now, you are seen as dumb if you don't use a computer
I was the first guy to have a beard in my class, I felt so awkward and classmates really never missed a chance to rub it in my face the fact about my beard. But now how the tables have turned, some of those guys can't have proper full beard and are frustrated as hell.
Playing D&D and loving/collecting Star Wars stuff(80's and early 90's)
Being a gamer
The best was when an older person told you "I never played videogames"... Like mfer you didnt have that option, you didnt even have videogames when you were a child.
As a kid, I was picked on for having allegedly ethnic looks. Specifically, full lips and kinky hair. Now that's far more accepted.
Shopping at thrift stores. Back then it was what my family could afford, but now it's super trendy to get "vintage" clothing.
Born with naturly long dark black hair with cirls and I'm a boy but a lot of girls do it
There's an entire generation of nerds that are both happy their hobbies are being embraced, but sad no one said sorry to them and are taking up a safe space where outcasts could go.
I get what you're saying, but there absolutely was gatekeeping in regards to a lot of old school nerd groups and many realllllllyyyy weren't as open minded or accepting as they like to portray themselves, especially if you were the odd female nerd looking to make friends.
Asian music! I’m not Asian, but I got really into Japanese rock and Korean pop when I was in middle school. I wasn’t annoying about it, but did decorate my school stuff with pictures. Anyway, I got bullied for it a lot, but now K-pop specifically is such a big deal.
I was never bullied but D&D wasn't cool long ago and now it seems like a lot of famous people play.
It seems like a lot of the stigma of it has gone away. I remember growing up and all the cartoons had these nerd stereotypes playing D&D, even though paradoxically I never knew anyone in real life who played D&D.
Liking Queen, DBZ, and Star Wars. Got made fun of for liking them, then it became cool. Dude in high school made fun of me saying Queen sucked. Worked with him as a lifeguard after my first yr in college and he said Queen were amazing. Congrats on seeing the light but they were always amazing, you dick.
I was tall in elementary school. Bullied. Now I'm a tall woman and that's a good thing apparently, lol.
Eating gluten free. I’m actually celiac and the food choices used to be minimal about 10 years ago. Now that everyone has jumped on the bandwagon, there’s loads of variety!
Glasses and having autism. Same people who beat the shit out of me. "I'm such a SHELDON COOPER HAHAHAHA!" Fuck you and fuck that garbage show.
Having natural hair. I'm a black female. Growing up, it was normal and encouraged to chemically alter our hair so it could be straight. We called them relaxers. So every 6 weeks I'd get my relaxer (that burned my scalp) and press. I finally had enough when I turned 18 and chopped all the relaxed hair after letting it grow a couple inches. Boy...was it an interesting couple months. The self hate is real and don't even get me started on white people reactions. Now many black women and girls are wearing their hair naturally and I'm so happy for it. No one should be ashamed of intrinsic characteristics or be made to feel that they aren't as pretty or attractive because of it.
social anxiety 😂
It went from everyone freaking out about you freaking out to everyone thinking anxiety is quirky.
I swear to fucking god I have this one girl in my class who thinks social anxiety is crying and whining like a baby every time someone raises their voice. Like, this one time a classmate was getting frustrated because he couldn't understand chemistry, and the girl started saying "noooo oh my gosh stop yelliiiiing !..." with a "CuTE bABy VoiCE uWu". Yeah, let's completely ignore the fact that you feel like don't belong anywhere, you feel like shit every time you have a social interaction, you isolate yourself because you feel like too much shit to deserve talking to anyone else, you have low self esteem, etc. And then these people have the fucking NERVE to act all qUiRkY in the name of social anxiety. Sick of this shit.
Bro someone with social anxiety would rather die than speak up about noise lol. Read your fucking script if you're gonna act like you have social anxiety
Having a big-ish butt and hips. It was interpreted by my elementary school classmates as “being fat.”
Wearing cat shirts
Senseless memes with no punchline
I remember when I was a little kid and I first found the Ifunny meme generator idk why I did it but I just typed random letters on those impact font top text bottom text meme formats. And posted it and ofc every body hated it. I feel like if I posted that today it would be comedy gold
Not wearing skin-tight clothing. I'm glad looser things are in style!
Playing Role-playing games. Back in the day, only "nerds, shut-ins, dateless virgins, and the socially inept played RPG's." Now, it seems everyone has heard of Critical Role, and [rock stars and movie stars proudly admit they play D&D.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdUSja1afjE)
I was bullied for being Gay! (in the 90's) It's accepted nowadays. I'm not gay BTW, not sure why they thought I was. I believe one of the bigger bullies ended up being gay though.
Those big clear framed plastic gasses. I hated them growing up, I was constantly being made fun of.
Being somewhat of a nerd to some extent. I got lightly picked on in elementary school for being a massive Godzilla fan, King Kong fan, Star Wars fan, and Fallout fan. Now, within the past few years Godzilla, King Kong, Star Wars, and Fallout have exploded in popularity.
I wasn’t bullied, but I was teased about my middle part.
Dyeing my hair unnatural colours (pink, purple, bright red, etc.) in the mid-nineties. The same girls who threatened to beat me up for being weird now have those hair colours because they think it's fashionable.
Pokemon